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One man's meat is another man's poison. — Lucretius

Poem · Philosophical literature

One man's meat is another man's poison.

In the original Latin

Quod aliis cibus est aliis fuat acre venenum.

Lucretius
On the Nature of Things · 100 BC
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Carus, Titus Lucretius. The Nature of Things, translated by Alicia Stallings. Penguin Classics, 2007, bk. 4, l. 637.
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Carus, Titus Lucretius. De Rerum Natura [On the Nature of Things]. c. 55 BC, bk. 4, l. 637.

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